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posted by martyb on Friday March 29 2019, @01:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the How-are-they-going-to-find-you? dept.

BBC removes its shows from Google's Podcasts app

If you search for BBC programs on the Google Podcasts app or through Assistant, you might get a handful of results at most -- or none at all -- instead of the dozens you'd usually get in the past. The broadcaster has pulled its offerings from the app after the tech giant altered its search function to direct viewers to its own service instead of BBC Sounds and other third-party services.

[...] [Perhaps] the main reason why the broadcaster chose to abandon the app is somewhere near the bottom of [BBC's Distribution and Business Development Director Kiera Clifton's] post, particularly the part where he talks about audience data. By directing users to its own app, Google is depriving the BBC of information on what potential listeners are interested in. The broadcaster uses that data to determine what's popular or trending, so it can create more programs of a similar nature. It could also use that information to surface similar shows for a user and to make sure it doesn't have gaps in its coverage.

Google is looking for a solution, so expect more user tracking.

Also at Android Authority.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday March 29 2019, @08:43AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 29 2019, @08:43AM (#821707) Journal

    She is a remainer and has basically fucked the whole Brexit process at the behest of her EU masters, this isn't tenacity, this is about staying in place to obey the orders to create maximal damage to the process and the credibility of the UK parliament.

    Based on the news I get here, UK parliament didn't need help in trashing their credibility. And I don't believe the news outlets in Australia has anything in the game to be biased one way or the other.

    Are you sure that the Brexiters really have a single mind, or it was just a matter of "the illusion of a new beginning"? You know? Like doing nothing about the real causes by hoping to get a happier result only because you try something different. Happens every year with lotsa people making New Year resolutions.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Friday March 29 2019, @09:45AM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday March 29 2019, @09:45AM (#821721) Homepage
    Something had to be done
    Brexit was something
    Therefore they had to do brexit
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